Spider-Man 2

Continuity mistake: When the car crashes in the cafe, it crashes against a column on the left. In subsequent shots the column has no damage at all.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Mary Jane holds the wedding card with her left hand. A frame later she is holding it with her right hand.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the bank, a desk filled with papers zooms towards Dr. Ock. The papers fly away, but reappear a frame later when he tears the table apart.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Spidey and Octopus fight at the tower and a huge chunk of concrete falls on the street below. Seconds later, however, cars are seen moving around, no honks, no crashes, no problems at all, as if the falling rubble had simply vanished.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Spider-Man stops the train his head and chest fall forward due to the momentum, but a frame later - from a different angle - he is standing still, his body against the train structure.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: Right before Spidey stops the train there's a lot of people inside next to him. Then a wide shot later they've vanished only to reappear a shot later.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Spidey throws a huge iron minute hand at Ock which destroys an enormous chunk of concrete and makes loads of debris fall downward. However, a shot later there's a view of the street and the train track and not only is the debris gone from the road but the traffic and people act as if nothing had happened.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After the car slams the cafe, Peter watches the street with people running around. The reflection on his lenses has nothing to do with what the opposite angle shows.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: When Peter/Spider-Man has his first web failure and falls on the pipes on the building's roof, he keeps his hands free in one shot and then his right hand is put on his chest in the next.

Continuity mistake: Kids buying fruit suddenly appear behind Peter when he arrives at the pizza place for the first time.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: Peter back flips off his moped to avoid the car racing at him. There were cop cars and other vehicles behind that car when Peter jumps, but when he lands only one cop car goes past in the lane next to him and the lane he's standing in is then clear of traffic as he talks to some kids.

Quantom X

Continuity mistake: When Peter first sees the burning building, there is a far away shot and you see the guy with dreadlocks run to a woman. Then it cuts back to Peter as he tries to become Spiderman then remembers he can't. Next shot has the same shot, only this time it's a close up of the man with dreadlocks running to the woman.

The_Iceman

Continuity mistake: After the bank scene where Spidey saves aunt May from Doc Ock, while they are on the street the sun changes between shots.

Continuity mistake: During the demonstration of the fusion reaction when Doc Ock is strapping the metal arms to his body, the pins that go in to his spine are shown going in twice from two different angles.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Peter and Aunt May visit Uncle Ben's grave, Peter's hair is blowing in the wind quite violently in the wide shot but is relatively still in the close up.

THGhost

Continuity mistake: When Jameson is brought the suit, the position of his secretary's right arm is inconsistent between the front and back angles.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: The chip on Dr. Ock's nape is 10 centimeters away from his hair. In the close-up it's right next to the hair.

Sacha

Plot hole: Harry tells Doc Ock that in order to find Spider-Man he must find Peter first. Doc Ock finds Peter with Mary Jane in the cafe and throws a car through the window straight at them, then later throws Peter against a brick wall. Any normal person would've been killed instantly (or very badly injured), and Doc Ock doesn't yet know that Peter is Spider-Man. Given that Peter is his only lead on Spider-Man, it makes no sense that Doc Ock would try to kill him.

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Suggested correction: Doc Ock is being controlled by the arms. They aren't behaving rationally.

Creating a series of silly explanations for obvious plot holes never resolves them. These arms were not behaving irrationally. In many scenes they were shown to be very intelligent. A good example is the scene where they attack doctors who try to remove them from Doc Ock's body. Saying that they weren't behaving rationally is absurd.

He may not have been trying to kill Peter, he could've been trying to make more of a scene of his entry, so Peter would take him more seriously and tell him where Spider-Man was. He could've been thinking of it as a risk of killing Peter though, but his arms made him go crazy.

This is only a theory. Theories never resolve mistakes.

It's not a theory. When Otto is first giving his demonstration to everybody at his apartment, a woman asks if the advanced AI for the tentacles would make him susceptible to being controlled. Otto says that yes it would so he shows everybody the inhibitor chip that he designed so he would not fall under its control. After the inhibitor chip gets destroyed, it's seen that the tentacles have not only taken control of his mind by forcing him to commit crimes, but have slowly driven him insane.

This scene is much too confusing for many people. This entry is correct. This is a mistake.

If these tentacles wanted him to finish the experiment then they wouldn't make him kill the person who has valuable information for him.

The arms are influencing his thoughts but not controlling every part of him. Doc Ock still seems to have control when defending himself but they seem to work in tandem with Ock. The only time they work on their own is when he under anesthetic. As we don't see him before he throws the car, we can only speculate the arms were trying to hurt Peter by themselves.

Lummie

It's a cool scene regardless man.

Rob245

Killing Peter would probably send a message to Spider-Man as well, so Ock probably wasn't concerned about being gentle.

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May Parker: We need a hero, couragous sacrificing people, setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero, people line up for 'em, cheer for them, scream their names, and years later tell how they stood in the rain for hours just to get a glimpse of the one who told them to HOLD ON a second longer. I believe theres a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble. And finally gets us to die with pride. Even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the thing we want most, even our dreams.

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Trivia: When J. Jonah Jameson is thinking of a name for Octavius, Hoffman shouts out "Dr. Strange" and JJJ says "Already taken." Dr. Strange is another Marvel hero who lives in New York. Director Sam Raimi would later go on to direct Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness after original director Scott Derrickson stepped down.

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Question: What exactly does Aunt May mean when she says, "What do you mean 'we'" after Spider-Man tells her, "We sure showed him"? Is she just being modest?

Answer: She's actually being funny because she thinks that she did all the work, instead of Spider Man.

Allyson

Answer: I later found out it could have been a reference to a Spider-Man comic. In the comic, after he rescues a girl from a bad guy, she says "We sure showed him!" There is a thinking bubble by Spider-Man's head saying "We?" It's like the conversation in the movie but in reverse.

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